Surprise! What breed is this?

[pandabear]

Ordered 24 fertile White Leghorn eggs from Texas A&M, only four hatched-and one is black((good one, Aggies)).

FedEx
Really blurry, but they won't stand still. And yes, he's named for FedEx in Cheaper by the Dozen 2.

I can ID horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, dogs and cats. Chickens are a total mystery to me. He's got white(yellow?) on his stomach/chest and on his wings, a bit of black on his beak and a little black down his legs. He is 9 days old(('born' last Friday)), yet about half the size of the Leghorns with him who are, at most, two and a half days older than him. His size may or may not be because of or related to the fact he was assisted out of his shell. He still fits nicely in the palm of my hand, and my palm is not even very big.

We don't even have guesses, we just call him our runty Leghorn with a really, really big black spot.

 

[Gallusfarm]

Haha, one of these is not like the others! It's probably an Australorp, or maybe a Barred Rock or Black Star. Is its head all black, or does it have white on it?

 

[Bantimna]

Australorp?
See if this pic, represents anything about the chick....

 

[cbohn80]

my australorphad alot less white than that pick, had the markings of a penguin

 

[juliechick]

If it came from a white egg, it wouldn't be an Australorp cause they lay brown eggs. It could be a cross breed. A rooster may have jumped the fence into the Leghorn pen.

 

[akcountrygrrl]

What kind of comb does it have? The leg feathering looks pretty sparse for any purebred breeds I know so I would have to guess it is a cross breed.

 

[pandabear]

Sorry for the late reply! I only see them on the weekends when they come home.

He's being raised for an elementary school, and the teachers have been trying to find out what he is, and we're probably just going to settle on a crossbreed. There are very few black chickens who hatch from white eggs, and those chicks don't look very much like the chick we have. He kind of resembled some, but now he has white stripes on the feathers on his wings and we've got nothing.

Oh well, he's just a pet. We'll love him no matter what breed(s) he is.